[Sdpg] Fall Ecology and Harvest Gathering at Lost Valley Oregon, October 13-14

Wed Sep 12 23:25:50 PDT 2007

Thanks for your help in spreading this information...

Please consider attending what promises to be 
another stimulating event at Lost Valley 
Educational Center. We are offering discounts for 
early registration and for recruiting additional 
attendees; some work-trade scholarships are also 
available. We have assembled a stellar line-up of 
presenters and now just need to bring together 
participants to make this as rewarding a learning 
experience as May's Native Plants and 
Permaculture Gathering. Please forward this 
information to any individuals or lists who would 
be interested. Thanks very much!
Chris Roth
for Lost Valley Nature Center

Fall Ecology and Harvest: An Intergenerational Exploration
October 13-14, 2007 (Saturday-Sunday)
at Lost Valley Educational Center, Dexter, OR

We invite people ages 12 through 112 to join us 
to learn about fall ecology, indigenous 
tradition, and the harvest season here in the 
western Cascade foothills. Throughout this 
weekend of presentations, discussions, and 
activities, we'll explore how we can learn from 
one another and pass ecological wisdom and 
insights back and forth between generations. An 
early registration discount is available through 
September 15. We are also now offering a $10 
discount/rebate from your registration fee for 
each paying registrant who first heard about the 
event through you, or who cites you as his or her 
primary influence in considering attending. See 
<http://www.lostvalley.org/fallecology>www.lostvalley.org/fallecology 
for updated event details, or contact Fall 
Ecology and Harvest Event, 81868 Lost Valley 
Lane, Dexter, OR 97431, (541) 937-2567 x116, nature AT lostvalley.org.

Fall Ecology and Harvest: An Intergenerational 
Exploration (extended description)
October 13-14, 2007 (Saturday-Sunday)
at Lost Valley Educational Center, 81868 Lost Valley Lane, Dexter, OR 97431
(541) 937-2567 x116, nature AT lostvalley.org

updated event details: 
<http://www.lostvalley.org/fallecology>www.lostvalley.org/fallecology
brochure: 
<http://www.lostvalley.org/files/Fall%20Ecology%20and%20Harvest%20brochure.pdf>www.lostvalley.org/files/Fall%20Ecology%20and%20Harvest%20brochure.pdf
poster: 
<http://www.lostvalley.org/files/Fall%20Ecology%20and%20Harvest%20poster.pdf>www.lostvalley.org/files/Fall%20Ecology%20and%20Harvest%20poster.pdf
registration form: 
<http://www.lostvalley.org/fallecology/registration>www.lostvalley.org/fallecology/registration

Cosponsored by Lost Valley Nature Center and 
NextGEN (the youth branch of the Global 
Ecovillage Network), this event will focus on 
fall ecology, indigenous tradition, and the 
harvest season here in the western Cascade 
foothills. We’ll explore what is happening on the 
land at this time of year, and how we humans can 
harvest the bounty from our gardens, farms, 
orchards, and from the wild. We’ll learn about 
the ways of the Kalapuya who preceded us here, as 
well as sustainable food growing and 
preservation, resource stewardship, ecological 
restoration, and traditional seasonal 
celebrations. We’ll bring together people ages 12 
through 112 to explore how we can learn from one 
another and pass ecological wisdom and insights 
back and forth between generations. We’ll also 
learn about school gardens, mushrooms, lichens, 
and mosses, building community, ecovillages, and more.

Presenters:
• Esther Stutzman (Kalapuyan storyteller)
• Bill Burwell (Kalapuya researcher)
• Jude Hobbs (Permaculture teacher and designer, Agroecology Northwest)
• Jerry Hall (ethnobotanist, Lane Community College)
• Jen Anonia (Food for Lane County Gardens Program Manager)
• Heiko Koester (Permacultural landscaper, Eugene Permaculture Guild)
• Sharon Blick (former director, School Garden Project)
• Rick Valley (Lost Valley land steward, Permaculture teacher and designer)
• Alison Rosenblatt (NextGEN--Global Ecovillage Network)
• Tammy Davis (mycophile, Lost Valley Educational Center)
• Tobias Policha (ethnobotanist, Institute of Contemporary Ethnobotany)
• Sarah Kleeger and Andrew Still (Seed Ambassadors Project)
• Dave Kofranek (lichenologist)
• Dharmika Henschel (ethnobotanist/musician)
• and more.

Early conference registration fee (until Sept. 
15), including four organic vegetarian meals, is 
$95 for students ages 12 and above, $125 for 
non-students. Regular fees are $105 for students, 
$135 for non-students. We are offering a $10 
discount/rebate from your registration fee for 
each paying registrant who first heard about the 
event through you, or who cites you as his or her 
primary influence in considering attending. 
Overnight lodging is also available. A limited 
number of work-trade opportunities and 
scholarships are available; please inquire or see website for application.

Cosponsors:
Lost Valley Nature Center
Lost Valley Educational Center’s 87 acres include 
oak savanna, natural meadow, stream and riparian 
areas, ponds, extensive forest lands in various 
states of maturity, gardens and orchards. Our 
diverse habitats and several miles of nature 
trails offer unique environmental education 
opportunities. Lost Valley Nature Center sponsors 
walks and public events (like May’s Native Plants 
and Permaculture Gathering) to help nature-lovers 
learn from the land and from one another.

NextGEN
NextGEN is a global network organized by young 
adults concerned with issues of sustainability. 
We hope to inspire you with examples of viable 
and positive choices for the future. We offer 
opportunities for action through conferences, 
educational workshops, and direct experience in 
communities. Our international support network 
develops connections among activists and encourages resource sharing.

Excerpts from May’s Native Plants and Permaculture Conference Proceedings:

Bill Burwell: At the start of each harvest season 
the Kalapuyans would have a first gathering 
ceremony. The spiritual leader of each winter 
village site would harvest a few articles of each 
resource, bring it back, prepare it in a 
ceremonial way, bless the plants or animals that 
were responsible, and then the regular harvest 
could begin. The first gathering ceremony was 
very important to them, and it was practiced all 
throughout the Kalapuya culture, religiously. 
Their belief was that all plants and animals, 
including humans, were part of the same format. 
As above, so below. Just like humans, plants and 
all animals had families, and then beyond the families they had communities.

There’s one word I know of that was utilized all 
the way up and down the Willamette Valley, the 
lower Columbia, and into the Salish area in 
Washington: Tamanawas. It’s been translated as 
spirit power. People who went out on a vision 
quest were looking for their Tamanawas. I think 
what it really related to was a person’s ability 
to interconnect with all the rest of nature. I’ve 
collected a number of tales of the people going 
out into the woods to find a particular medicine, 
and their ability to find this medicine came from 
the ability to plug into that certain plant and 
interact with it. The plant actually was the 
teacher of the person who was going out on the search.

Jerry Hall: When we started learning our 
language, songs began coming to us. There is the 
belief that songs are just in the ether or in the 
air, and they select somebody to come to at a 
time in that person’s life. 
 My experience is 
that singing evokes something from us that is 
beyond talking and gives expression to prayer.

I feel that nature is really part of the home and 
that people related that way five hundred years 
ago. People knew where everything was and they took care of it.

Fall Ecology and Harvest Event Registration
October 13-14, 2007 (Saturday-Sunday) at Lost 
Valley Educational Center, Dexter, OR

Name:____________________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________
Phone(s):__________________________________________________________
<Email:____________________________________________________________>Email:____________________________________________________________
School (if student):__________________________________________________

Name #2:_________________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________
Phone(s):__________________________________________________________
<Email:____________________________________________________________>Email:____________________________________________________________
School (if student):__________________________________________________

Conference and Meal Fees (including four organic 
vegetarian meals, Sat. lunch and dinner, Sun. breakfast and lunch):
__$95 early registration, students ages 12 and above, until Sept. 15, 2007
__$105 regular registration, students ages 12 and above
__$125 early registration, non-students, until Sept. 15, 2007
__$135 regular registration, non-students
A limited number of work-trade opportunities and 
partial scholarships are available; please 
inquire or see website for application.

Lodging: __$30/adult dormitory accommodations, Saturday night
__$20/minor dormitory accommodations, Saturday 
night (under 18; must be accompanied by parent or guardian)
__$10 camping per person, Saturday night

Nature Center Membership Contribution (receive 
e-newsletters and other member benefits, and help support the Nature Center):
__$25 __$50 __$100 __other: $____

Scholarship Donation (help others with limited funds attend this gathering):
__$25 __$50 __$100 __other: $____

Total Payment (pre-surcharge): $____
Payment method: __check (payable to Lost Valley 
Center)  –or–  __credit/debit card:
Type:________ Expiration date:_________Number:____________________________
Name on card:_______________________
Please add 5% surcharge for credit/debit card payments: $____    Total: $____

Additional Questions:
How did you hear about this event?__________________________________________
Can you offer a ride? (if yes: when, and from 
where?)_____________________________
Would you like a ride? (if yes: when, and from 
where?)____________________________
Do you have any additional suggestions or 
questions?_____________________________

Please send completed form to Fall Ecology and 
Harvest Gathering, LVEC, PO Box 55, Dexter, OR 97431 USA.
You may also call 541-937-2567 ext. 116, email 
nature AT lostvalley.org, or register and pay 
online by following the links at 
<http://www.lostvalley.org/fallecology>www.lostvalley.org/fallecology

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